Norman O. Brown Quotes

• Soy lo que es mío. La personalidad es la propiedad personal original.

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  Personality, Property, Mines

  Norman O. Brown (1990). “Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition”, p.145, Univ of California Press

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• To be seen is the ambition of ghosts, and to be remembered is the ambition of the dead.

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  Ambition, Ghost, Remembered

  Norman O. Brown (1990). “Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition”, p.99, Univ of California Press

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• El cuerpo humano no es una cosa o sustancia, dada, sino una creación continua. El cuerpo humano es un sistema energético que nunca es una estructura completa; nunca está estático; está en perpetua autoconstrucción y autodestrucción internas; destruimos para hacerlo nuevo.

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  Health, Exercise, Self

  Norman O. Brown (1990). “Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition”, p.155, Univ of California Press

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• Mankind today is still making history without having any conscious idea of what it really wants or under what conditions it would stop being unhappy; in fact what it is doing seems to be making itself more unhappy and calling that unhappiness progress.

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  Ideas, Progress, Unhappy

  Norman O. Brown (2012). “Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History”, p.16, Wesleyan University Press

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• Love without attachment is light.

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  Light, Attachment

  Norman O. Brown (1990). “Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 Edition”, p.260, Univ of California Press

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• Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

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  Freedom, Common Sense, Liberty

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• The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

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  Religious, Money, Heirs

  Norman O. Brown (2012). “Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History”, p.240, Wesleyan University Press

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• Meaning is not in things but in between them.

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  Norman O. Brown (1990). “Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition”, p.247, Univ of California Press

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• In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.

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  Ciencia, Esencia, Largo

  Norman O. Brown (1972). “Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History”

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• The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.

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  Dynamics, Enjoyment, Capitalism

  Norman O. Brown (2012). “Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History”, p.273, Wesleyan University Press

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• The boundary line between self and external world bears no relation to reality; the distinction between ego and world is made by spitting out part of the inside, and swallowing in part of the outside.

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  Realidad, Yo, Ego

  Norman O. Brown (1990). “Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition”, p.143, Univ of California Press

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• I perceive a necessary gap between seeing and being. I would not be able to have said certain things if I had been under the obligation to unify the word and the deed. As it is I can let my words reach out and net impossible things - things that are impossible for me to do. And this is a way to pay the price for saying or seeing things.

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  Pay The Price, Impossible Things, Deeds

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• Resisting madness is the maddest way of being mad.

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  Mad, Way, Resisting

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• El cuerpo humano no es una cosa o una sustancia, dada, sino una creación continua.

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  Substance, Body, Self Destruction

  Norman O. Brown (1990). “Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition”, p.155, Univ of California Press

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• Whoever expects to walk peacefully in the world must be money's guest.

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  World, Guests, Walks

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• To love is to transform; to be a poet.

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  Love, Love Is, Poet

  Norman O. Brown (1991). “Apocalypse and/or Metamorphosis”, p.10, Univ of California Press

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• La historia es la representación de un ritual en un escenario permanente y universal, y su conmemoración perpetua.

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  History, Stage, Commemoration

  Norman O. Brown (1990). “Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition”, p.116, Univ of California Press

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• The insane do not share the normal prejudice in favor of external reality.

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  Reality, Insane, Prejudice

  Norman O. Brown (1968). “Love's Body”

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• Utopian speculations ... must come back into fashion. They are a way of affirming faith in the possibility of solving problems that seem at the moment insoluble. Today even the survival of humanity is a utopian hope.

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  Fashion, Humanity, Survival

  Norman O. Brown (2012). “Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History”, p.305, Wesleyan University Press

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• To be is to be vulnerable.

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  Vulnerable, Vulnerability

  Norman O. Brown (1990). “Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition”, p.184, Univ of California Press

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• Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.

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  Psychology, Progress, Society

  Norman O. Brown (2012). “Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History”, p.18, Wesleyan University Press

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• Truth is error burned up.

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  Truth, Errors, Truth Is

  Norman O. Brown (1968). “Love's Body”

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• All currency is neurotic currency.

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  Currency, Neurotic

  Norman O. Brown (2012). “Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History”, p.271, Wesleyan University Press

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